Travel writer Julia Cooke's exhilarating portrait of Pan Am stewardesses in the Mad Men era.

At the beginning of this century enormous progress had been made in genetics. The Human Genome Project finished sequencing human DNA. It seemed it was only a matter of time until we had all the answers to the secrets of life on this planet.

A fascinating insight into climate change biology around the globe, as well as in our own backyards

Welcome to the wonderful world of graphene, the thinnest substance known to science

Explains how philosophers like Socrates and Pythagoras influenced Plato's thought. This book provides an account of Plato's puzzling theory of knowledge, and explains how this theory then directed his provocative views on politics, ethics and individual liberty.

A completely revised and updated edition of the bestselling productivity guide

The cutting-edge science that will revolutionise the way we prevent disease